What did women do
                                      about menstruation
                                      in the past?
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                        
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                                    Special Book for
                                        Women 
                                      Booklet (complete) by Gilbert
                                      Thayer 
                                      (20 pages, Lafayette, Indiana,
                                      U.S.A., 1920s?) 
                                       
                                    
                                    
                                      
                                       
                                      
                                        
                                          
                                            
                                              Below:
                                                Pp. 4-5
                                              "Bodily
                                                  purity always
                                                means bodily
                                                  health. . . . Nearly
                                                  all female troubles
                                                  are fought and cured
                                                  by the Syringe alone."
                                              
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                                              Below:
                                                I enlarged the label
                                                  on the bag; the
                                                large word looks like -
                                                in fine commercial
                                                spelling -  
                                                KANTLEEK
                                                and SEAMLESS
                                                but the rest to me is
                                                illegible. That looks
                                                like a fleur
                                                  de lis in the
                                                design above.
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                                      - introduction
                                      (p.1) - 2-3
                                      (Female trouble, corsets) - 4-5
                                      (Vaginal douche) - 6-7
                                      (Pelvic troubles in females, 
                                      The generative organs of females)
                                      - 8-9
                                      (Treatment) - 10-11
                                      (About the difficulties of
                                      maternity) - 12-13 -
                                      14-15 -
                                       
                                      16-17
                                      (Nervousness) - 18-19
                                      (Headache, Acid stomach, Cancer
                                      can be prevented, Childbirth) - 20 
                                      See
                                      an American
                                        douche set from the 1920s -
                                      Fresca douche
                                        powder from the 1920s -  
                                      SIMILAR
                                        BOOKS: Lydia Pinkham's Private
                                        Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar
                                        to Women 
                                      (1905-1910?)
                                        - The
                                        Happy Baby (Pinkham Co.,
                                      1920s-30s?) - The Intimate
                                        Side of a Woman's Life  
                                      by Leona W. Chalmers (1937) - Woman's
                                        Physical Freedom (1923)
                                      by Clelia Duel Mosher, M.D.  
                                      ODOR page
                                      
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